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Taylor Swift is known for being a pretty good cook.

She's especially famous for her homemade sourdough bread and chai sugar cookies, the recipe for which was posted to her Instagram way back in 2014 and has since been replicated by numerous amateur and professional bakers.

Thanks to the release of a new cookbook by Leechburg, Pennsylvania, ...Read more

Who’d have guessed that the place to find a killer spritz cookie recipe would be inside a cemetery?

But that’s just where Naomi Odessa Miller-Dawson’s cookie recipe lives, etched in stone at her final resting place at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery.

When archivist Rosie Grant, who was was completing an internship at Congressional ...Read more

The Trump administration issued a memo telling states to “immediately undo” any action taken to fully fund November food-aid benefits, adding further uncertainty around the program that provides support to 42 million low-income Americans.

Amid the ongoing government shutdown, the U.S. Agriculture Department issued the directive in a ...Read more

The Supreme Court temporarily blocked an order late Friday night that would have forced the government to backfill the country’s largest anti-hunger program — a move the administration claimed would require it to “raid school lunch money” to keep families fed.

The decision, issued on behalf of the court by Associate Justice Ketanji ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Agriculture Department’s request for administrative stays on two federal court orders requiring the agency to fully pay November food stamp benefits.

The high court intervention came hours after an appellate court denied the request for a stay. It also came hours after the department ...Read more

The Trump administration spent Friday fighting to avoid restoring $4 billion in food assistance in jeopardy due to the government shutdown, suggesting it might need to “raid school lunch money” in order to comply with court orders.

The claim was part of a break-neck appeal in the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday, where the government ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Agriculture Department on Friday said it will fully fund November food stamp benefits in compliance with a federal court order but also on Friday asked the Supreme Court to immediately block the order while it appeals.

“This Court’s intervention is urgently needed,” the administration said in its filing to the highest ...Read more

“I hope this is going to be enough,” said the coordinator at Silver Lake Community Church food pantry, wiping her forehead as she chopped off bad ends of donated celery. Every Wednesday morning for the past year, I, along with a dozen or so other volunteers, sort and pack donated food for about 150 families.

But a few months ago, the food ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A U.S. judge ordered Trump officials to fully cover the cost of food-aid benefits for more than 42 million eligible Americans this month, rejecting an administration plan to only partially fund the program during the government shutdown.

The order from U.S. District Judge John McConnell on Thursday means that the U.S. Department ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Father Jim Sichko, the Kentucky priest known for bringing Pappy and other premium bourbons to the Pope, is releasing the third in his series of Papal barrel picks from Willett Distillery.

The new release, rounding out what Sichko calls “the Holy of Holy Spirits,” will be available beginning Nov. 11 online and in select ...Read more

The Trump administration faces a new challenge in the battle over food assistance benefits amid a federal funding lapse — a lawsuit filed by recipients who say they’re in danger of going hungry.

The proposed class-action suit comes as the administration has sent conflicting signals about whether it will comply with court orders to continue ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the administration won’t pay food stamp benefits until after the partial government shutdown ends, in potential defiance of a federal court order and in conflict with what his administration told a judge Monday, but he was contradicted several hours later by his spokesperson.

Trump’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the administration won’t pay food stamp benefits until after the partial government shutdown ends, in potential defiance of a federal court order and in conflict with what his administration told a judge Monday.

His post on the social media site Truth Social came even as the Agriculture ...Read more

As the government shutdown drags into its fifth week, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, has become just another casualty of the Donald Trump administration’s cruelty. Without congressional action, millions of Americans may see their SNAP benefits vanish this month — including over 2 million people in Illinois and ...Read more